Story+2009-05-15+Hershey,+PA

“Hello, Hershey, PA! (crowd cheers)…are you ready to be delivered? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Badlands”**

“Can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“Oh, God blessed us with another beautiful night (crowd cheers) let’s use it, come on… (…) 18-year-old Jay Weinberg! (crowd cheers)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“We burn Hannah Montana, baby (chuckles)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, end of “Twist and Shout”**

“Good evening, Hershey, Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) we’re so glad to be here tonight…in the wonderful home of…candy (crowd cheers) that’s right…that’s right…but we’ve come here tonight with a purpose…the E Street Band of course is here tonight to fulfil its solemn vow to rock the house! (crowd cheers) but we ain’t here tonight just to rock the house…we’re here tonight to build a house… right here in this amusement park…we’re gonna take fear and we’re gonna build a house of love…we’re gonna take despair and we’re gonna build a house of hope…we’re gonna take doubt and build a house of faith…we’re gonna take sadness and build a house of joy and happiness tonight (crowd cheers) and we’re gonna take that cooling off and we’re gonna build a house of sexual healing (crowd cheers) that’s right…and we’re gonna use the bad wood… we’re gonna use the good wood…and we’re gonna use the bad news that’s out there and we’re gonna use the good news that’s there… and we got all the tools we need right here on this stage and in these seats and on this field tonight (crowd cheers) but there’s just one thing…we can’t do it ourselves…that’s why the E Street Band is here night after night after night after night because we can’t do it by ourselves…if we’re gonna build a house out of music and spirit and noise…well, the band is here tonight and we’re gonna bring down all the power of the music…but Hershey, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“I’m not sure if we know this one…alright, what do we got here?...what does that say?...this is very obscure…yes, this is quite obscure, it can be found out there but the name of this song is “Give the Girl a Great Big Kiss” and so an ingenious fan out there – being that we’re here in Hershey, Pennsylvania, of course – “Give the (?) we’re gonna try it…uh, how does it start? (chuckles)…(?) what, what, what, what’s the first guitar part?...oh yeah…alright… come right and sing it…I grew tired – alright (chuckles) maybe I’ll wait a little bit and groove, alright, here we go, alright, give me the (?)…”G,” right?...I knew that…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Give the Girl a Kiss”**

“Alright…a mighty good one, band…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, after “Give the Girl a Kiss”**

“I’ve seen a lot of signs for this out there so we’re gonna give it a shot…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Trapped”**

“Thank you…I’m gonna send this one out to Patti tonight, she sends her love…she’s home, she’s, uh, still nursing her ribs after a slip off her horse and also it’s prom night! (chuckles)…my daughter is seventeen…security! (chuckles)(laughs from the crowd) this is for Miss Patti, here we go…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Kingdom of Days”**

“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight, Hershey, PA (crowd cheers) woo!...oh yeah, it’s been great being able to spend these two beautiful nights with you in the past year and I love all the signs but actually it’s getting ridiculous now, I have to say (chuckles) we appreciate that…oh, alright, this is, uh…oh, I gotta say…18-year-old Jay Weinberg (chuckles)(crowd cheers) taking over from his dad (crowd cheers) the first guy to sit in that seat for 35 years besides his Pop (crowd cheers) that’s saying something… you wanna sit there at eighteen? that’s doing something (chuckles) woo!...these are for some friends of ours from the Central Pennsylvania Foodbank…Central Pennsylvania Foodbank distributes more than fifteen pounds, fifteen million pounds of food and grocery products each year to 27 Central Pennsylvania counties, if you pick up your newspapers, I’m sure you all know friends or relatives, see the millions of jobs that have been lost and the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost just over the past several months, there are so many people that are struggling out there in some very, very difficult times, it’s groups like the Central Pennsylvania Foodbank that help struggling citizens and make the difference between kids going to bed hungry or going to bed with some nutritious food, right now in these hard times, please support your neighbors and support the Central Pennsylvania Foodbank (crowd cheers) this was a song written in 1855 by Stephen Foster… more things change, the more they stay the same, this is “Hard Times Come Again No More”…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Hard Times”**

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) come on then let me hear you (crowd chants the intro) let’s hear it, come on now (crowd keeps singing) I don’t hear thirty thousand people, man, no (crowd keeps singing) that’s about twenty thousand, we got ten to go (crowd keeps singing) that’s twenty-five, we got five more (crowd keeps singing)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”**

“Thank you for coming out to the show tonight (crowd cheers)… (…) The undeniable Little Steven (crowd cheers) from the Sessions Band, Curtis King (crowd cheers) the man that brings the thunder down under, Mr. Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell on the violin (crowd cheers) the unbelievable, the, the, the, the, the prodigy, Jay Weinberg (crowd cheers) the brilliant Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) the unescapable Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) the beautiful and talented Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) Hershey! (crowd cheers) Hershey! (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) Pennsylvania! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, hard-rocking, earth-shocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, fucking history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) ...”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “American Land”**

“You can’t take no more (crowd cheers) I can tell you’re done, you’re finished, you’re finished (?)(crowd cheers)(?)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, end of “American Land”**

“Goodnight, everybody…thank you, Hershey (crowd cheers) thank you, Pennsylvania, we love you (crowd cheers) one more (crowd cheers) get on those instruments, boys, get on those instruments …(chuckles)(?)…are you ready, band?...(?)…a fabulous sign, just, just the kind of sign we’re talking about, alright (chuckles)…”
 * 15.05.09 Hershey, PA, intro to “Bobby Jean”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//